Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions: V. I. Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863-1945

… scholarship of the highest order… . Kendall Bailes’s book is destined to become a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of Russian and Soviet culture. It is insightful and eloquent. -Douglas R. Weiner

… an insightful, richly researched portrait of Vernadsky’s life and times …
-American Scientist

This biography … not only tells a story full of human drama but also one rich with insights into Russia’s higher-education and scientific-research establishments. -Washington Post Book World

[This] concise book, with references that stop short of the Gorbachev era, will be the foundation for all future scholarship in English on Vernadsky. -Nature

In this insightful exploration of Vernadsky’s legacy, Kendall Bailes unveils a creative scholar-activist whose life and work speak more clearly about his time than our own. -Science

The Bailes book … is fascinating … Read it! -World Affairs Report

Kendall Bailes has left us with a vivid portrayal of the life and times of Vladimir Vernadsky. -The Russian Review

It offers a penetrating analysis of social realities in twentieth-century Russia, which helped create an intellectual culture dominated by ideological extremes. -American Historical Review

This first full-length English-language biography of Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), one of the leading Russian intellectual figures of the twentieth century, focuses on the interaction between science and politics during Russia’s revolutionary age.